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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Resharing this job ad for the Thursday crowd!!

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Earlier today I shared a job ad for a new Assistant Director of my center! Some advice on applying to admin/staff jobs at unis for PhDs: 1. Your cover letter should be about the job that is posted. You cannot use the same letter for an admin job that you would use for a teaching or tenure-track job

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My center is hiring an Assistant Director! We are looking for a humanities or social sciences PhD w/ admin experience to run undergrad research programs at UCLA. We are moving fast, so apply early! $87k salary, Dec start date, hybrid work sched, pretty okay boss (me) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11365

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Undergraduate Research Center (HASS) - Assistant Director

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Undergraduate Research Center (HASS) - Assistant Director

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have adopted Pip!! He has jaunty eyebrows, stubby legs, most of his teeth, perfect velvet ears, a penchant for luxury snacks from Erewhon, and an extremely winning personality. We have known him for exactly 56 hours and we love him already!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

meet PIP!!! we are trying each other out and so far it’s going well

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

having a transcendent moment with an IKEA pretzel rn

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my most talented and beautiful family member Clyde Crooks just opening at the Wiltern last night, nbd

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love is Blind was robbed!! But what a time to be writing a book about watching TV!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

is it normal to sob hysterically as one fills out the “why do you want to adopt a dog” section of a dog rescue application?

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am feeling exceptionally glamorous in my new sunnies

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is the universe trying to tell me something

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you have a windowless office that you have made bearable, please let me know your hottest tips because I am now windowless and thus slightly deranged!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am spending a lot of time on petfinder and rescue pet socials these days and these spaces are not for the faint of heart. I am counting down the years (okay decades) until I can retire and adopt every funny looking tiny senior dog in LA

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sarah’s essay is mandatory reading for anyone who cares about life, death, or 18th-century literature

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

very frightening to open my last freewrite doc from a few weeks ago and find only a Barthes quote about death

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

currently working on the best research project I have ever given myself

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I stopped turning my diss into a monograph when I stopped trying to get a TT job and I’ve published chapters and other bits of it in the (different) book that I did write and in other pubs but sometimes I think about resurrecting my 80 pages on Virginia Woolf in some fashion

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

an airport lounge Campari & soda is a health drink

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

verklempt! at my undergrad English department

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

so many of the dogs newly arriving at shelters and rescue groups in southern CA are being named “Dolly” ❤️

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

someone really should have reminded me of the Argos part of the Odyssey before I went to see the movie yesterday because I am still in dog mourning and it devastated me all over again

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the Sunday morning of my dreams

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I want you to know that conversations in my household have turned toward adopting a bonded pair of small fluffy dogs

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the internet needs to stop advertising the Mary Oliver documentary to me!! yes I am on the record about Mary Oliver, but I am on the record as a known hater and there are plenty of goodreads reviews yelling at me about this!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a sneak preview of some galleys for a new essay that will be out in the Iowa Review in the fall! It is famously uncomplicated to write an essay about your partner’s MOTHER!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

late summer self-portrait in the form of a handheld fan and fountain diet cherry coke

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it’s all happening for my partner’s son and I am along for the beautiful ride!!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They need to make "Goblin Market" a miniseries

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

something that makes me feel good about humanity is outdoor summer Shakespeare

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

something I believe strongly is that every English major has earned exactly one “Reader, I…” in everything they write

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

please clap because I have written a book proposal and sample chapter about my best friend: television

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

don’t tell anyone but I maybe have a complete book proposal and first chapter

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have taken the day off from work to write which is wonderful and also sometimes I wish I were another type of person

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it's too bad that I have retired from issuing hot takes about academia because this has been SOME MONTH

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My research group’s final article is out now in the open-access journal Perspectives in Undergraduate Research and Mentoring! It’s titled “Undergraduate Research in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences: Alumni Personal Development & Professional Outcomes” www.elon.edu/u/academics/...

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Current Issue: PURM 14.1

PURM 14.1 (2026) Developing Career Readiness through Undergraduate Research Participation Letter from the Guest Editor for Issue 14.1 Paul Miller, Ph.D. Professor of Exercise Science, Elon...

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Please allow me to brag that my most handsome and talented family member Clyde Crooks has been named a best new artist by Pigeons & Planes!! www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/best-ne...

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Best New Artists (Summer, 2026)

Thirteen of the most exciting new artists including Amil Raja, Judah Weston & IsoKeys, earthsignchels, girlsweetvoiced, and more.

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Janelle from Sister Wives has a new boyfriend and I have never been happier for a complete stranger

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I may be slightly biased, but this is a great article about UCLA’s summer research programs! Check out the video for my brilliant summer students doing their thing www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2026/08/13/h...

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How summer research programs at UCLA are fueling student discovery - UCLA Undergraduate Education

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

PSA: @nyupress.bsky.social is having a sale! All books are 50% off with the code NYUP50! This means that you can buy my book for approx the price of an iced coffee in LA nyupress.org/978147981355...

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Avidly Reads Poetry

“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Jo...

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This summer I asked my Gen Z college students about their TV practices & one said: after dinner every night my parents sit on the couch & watch TV together, it’s SO WEIRD. If you have anecdata about generational diffs in TV rituals, please share! This is extremely unscientific research, thank you

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m not reading that Atlantic essay but I promise you that my quit lit writing re a Maine SLAC was better and funnier

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Emotional post: when Millie died three days before the start of my summer programs, I really did not know how or if I would make it through them. But the students in MMUF WRTP this year were so brilliant, strong, curious, generous, and community-minded that teaching them was a dream and our time…

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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

me (turning and turning in the widening gyre): this sucks so bad the falcon: huh

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